After the lemon pudding cookies turned out so well...I decided to come up with another pudding cookie recipe. I'm not a huge fan of chocolate and I don't really like chocolate chips in my cookies because they either get melty chocolate everywhere or they're harder than the cookie. So...I decided to use a semi-sweet chocolate baking bar and hiding it in the middle of the cookie...melty goodness without getting chocolate all over your hand! :) They turned out amaaaazing.
Chocolate Melt Vanilla Pudding Cookies
Ingredients:
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
3.4 oz vanilla pudding mix
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2-ish cups of flour
Semi-Sweet Chocolate Baking Bar, broken into pieces (mine ranged in size from 1/2 inch to 1 inch)
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F and grease the cookie sheet(s).
2. Mix together eggs, butter, shortening, vanilla extract and both sugars.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together pudding mix, flour, baking power, baking soda, and salt.
4. Carefully add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients 1 cup at a time and mix well.
5. I used a 1tbs measuring spoon to scoop out my cookie dough and then I wrapped it around a piece of chocolate and rolled it into a ball then flattened it just slightly when I put it on the cookie sheet.
6. Bake the cookies for approximately 10 minutes. Let the cookies sit on the cookie sheet for 3 minutes before moving to a cooling rack.